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We’re back with another Christmas movie breakdown — this time diving into The Snow Must Go On.

Isaiah Heyward returns to Broadway after a decade, but faces challenges in finding a director. He saves a Christmas musical and discovers love, family, and friendship as the greatest holiday gifts. He reunites with his family and friends.

November 28, 2025 | Hallmark Channel

• Corey Cott as Isaiah Heyward
• Heather Hemmens as Lilly-Anne

The movie starts with a Rudolph musical. It’s safe to say this is off-Broadway. Actor Isaiah Heyward wrote, directed, and stars in the one-man show that no one cared about. He put his heart and soul into it, working on it for over a year.

His sister, Jess, and her daughter, Aurora, show up to cheer him on and invite him home for Christmas. He says he has a big Broadway audition tomorrow, so he can’t come.

Isaiah shows up for the audition and sees a poster for a musical he was in long ago. Now, he can’t even get in the room to audition before the casting director leaves for the day. To make matters worse, he gets fired from his caroling gig for showing up late.

With nothing else going on, he heads home to Hancock.

His sister picks him up and immediately guilt-trips Isaiah for not being around for Aurora, who is struggling to adjust to her parents’ divorce. To make it up to her, he offers to pick her up from school — and naturally ends up taking over as director of the Christmas musical when the old director quits.

The school guidance counselor, Lilly-Anne, gets roped into being the staff supervisor.

But it turns out Isaiah doesn’t just have to direct — he has to finish writing the show, which happens to be about reindeer.

It doesn’t take long for Lilly-Anne to open up to him about her past. Isaiah discovers that one of the kids in the theater program is the daughter of the woman cast in the musical he wanted to audition for. He hatches a plan: he’s going to cast himself as the lead to impress her.

Aurora hears about his plan and volunteers to help make his vision come to life.

Lilly-Anne helps Isaiah learn how to work with kids, including helping one student, Steven, conquer his fear of singing in public and audition for the musical. There’s a lot of confusion over why Isaiah cast himself as the lead, but Aurora convinces everyone they’re lucky to learn from a Broadway legend.

He starts spending more time with Lilly-Anne outside of rehearsals — holding hands while looking at Christmas lights, watching a movie together, and shopping for a bad Charlie Brown-style Christmas tree.

After showing off his stage lighting setup, Isaiah and Lilly-Anne share a kiss — but he’s conflicted because he hasn’t told her the truth about why he’s the lead.

To help the kids feel comfortable performing in front of an audience, they go Christmas caroling.

The more Isaiah cares about the kids, the wiser he feels — but it’s time for the final dress rehearsal. He finds out a producer will be in the audience, so he goes out there and crushes it. The producer finds him backstage and invites him to the city on Christmas Eve to audition. Isaiah is thrilled — it’s what he’s been waiting for. Unfortunately, Lilly-Anne overhears, is upset, and demands he tell the kids the truth, or she will. It does not go well.

He goes to the audition but can’t focus, constantly thinking about letting the kids down. He tells the producer he has to return to Hancock to see the lead — the kids’ performance — and pleads with her to come with him.

She shows up just in time to give a pep talk, and Isaiah arrives behind her to apologize to everyone.

The show is a smash hit. He tells Lilly-Anne this is his favorite standing ovation. He confesses that he has a new dream — one with her — and decides he doesn’t want to go back to Broadway. The snow machine starts, they kiss, and he quips, “The snow must go on.”

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